Why do you carry while you're at home???

[cobber]

I'm so used to the weight, I walk in circles if its missing.

That, and home invasions. I've received a hand full of death threats over the years. Never know when someone might decide they want to try and serve that threat.

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A drive-by shooting by an 81-year-old ex-con. That is indeed a grudge, but I guess the shooter felt he had little to lose at this point. All the more reason to carry.

 

[SmileDocHill]

Because I come and go doing errands a lot and locking it up and getting it back out is a hassle. It is also one less thing I need taking up brain processing energy to have to think "keys, wallet, cell phone, pen, knife, gun". Like keeping track of my wallet it is just easier just to know I have it on me. It is part of getting dressed in the morning.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

My neighbor got home invaded, tied, beaten and robbed.

 

[bsoberg]

I have a gun in my ez chair me and my wife know it it there (p.s we have no kids it are house and if we have them over we put it up for safe keeping)

 

[Captain Morgan]

Because my crystal ball seems to be cloudy and I can't tell exactly when or where I might need the gun.

 

[marv]

Home is 10 mi South of an Indiana Correctional Facility and 10 North of the nearest city. My EDC is always on me and others are loaded and handy out of sight.

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

i'm not cool and don't have a facebook. break it down and tell us more..

Hey hey now baby girl, don't get your panties in a bunch. I posted the wrong link and just fixed it for ya

 

[calcot7]

Short and simple.....Why not?

 

[.452browning]

Because 100% of home invasions happen while you are home.

 

[youngda9]

It's where the things that I care the most about reside.

 

[Excalibur]

Sometimes when I transition from my outdoor clothes to my indoor clothes, I am still wearing my jeans or khaki pants with my gun holstered as I settled back in. When I am wearing my indoor clothes, I always have a gun in arm's reach and when I sleep, my guns are all around me.

I have strong doors, good windows, but those things can break more easily than my guns.

 

[rhino]

I carry at home in case I leave my rifle in another room. Heh.

 

[Armchair Operator]

I usually like to stay up late and tinker in my garage and during the summer I like to open the garage door to get some air in. My alley is not that busy and not well lit so I really don't see a reason not to carry in that situation.

 

[Cemetery-man]

I keep a loaded gun in the house because I once saw a skunk in the backyard and if he ever decides to invade my space, he's done for.

 

[led4thehed2]

To be ready. I have a very small studio apartment, and if anyone were to ever break in they already be within "self-defense range" (7 yards, if you care to believe in that sort of thing) and I would have no time to fetch a gun from another room, much less a safe. Were a home invasion to occur, I would need to be able to respond immediately. Therefore, the gun stays on my belt even when I'm just sitting there at home. I don't have the luxury of putting it down and still being able to respond to a threat.

 

[Beau]

It's the safest place to keep a readily usable firearm. With kids in the house I can't leave firearms lying around. Keeping one locked up just doesn't make sense because it would be to hard to get to if needed.

So on the belt it stays. Ready to use and safe from little ones.

 

[JetGirl]

Home is where home invasions occur.

Yep. Any time, any neighborhood, any house, any reason, any victim.
I choose to be prepared and encourage others to do so, as well. https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...s/101439-conceal_conceal_conceal_show_it.html

 

[shannonneumann]

Just as others have said, I carry at home because that is where the home invasions occur.

Having said that, I don't carry on my person 100% of the time. I do, however, always have clear in my mind where the weapons are and how to get to them in a hurry. I also am very particular about keeping the doors locked (my family gives me a hard time about this, but it's a simple thing to slow down a potential intruder). I know the layout of my house, I know where someone is likely to come in from and I know if I hear any door being kicked in, I have time to get up the stairs (to grab the shotgun) before someone can make it around to my living room. At that point, they don't know for sure where I am, and they have to come thru a narrow area to get to me. This all sounds well and good, but there are two main problems.

The first problem is that home invasions by their very nature come as a surprise. If I hear a door being kicked in, chances are very good that I won't immediately realize that is what is happening. That delay eliminates any advantage I may have had. Secondly, there likely not be enough time get the wife and kids to a position where I am between them and an intruder if I had to take time to get access to a weapon. In the end, this is why I end up carrying most of the time.

 

[eldirector]

I carry when my pants are on. Well, for the most part.

I've been asked the same question as the OP, and have had the same answer as most of you: 100% of all Home Invasions happen at home.

Someone told me that "you are supposed to feel safe at home!". Asked asked them WHY?!? I'll tell you why.... Because we MAKE our homes safe. There is nothing magical about it.

 

[keaton.j]

Usually I have a .38 in the nightstand, my Glock 17 in the safe, and a my trusty Remington 12 gauge on a wall mount behind the couch in the living room.